Job Market in Iran
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April 23,2023The employment rate in Iran stood at 36.6% (23.43 million) in the last financial year’s fourth quarter (Dec. 22, 2022-March 20), unchanged compared with the same quarter of the year before,... -
April 15,2023The Statistical Center of Iran has put labor force participation rate — the proportion of the population of ages 15 and above that is economically active either employed or looking for a job — at...
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July 20,2022Iran’s labor market suffers from a very low participation of women, data released by the Statistical Center of Iran confirm. Women’s economic participation rate stood at only 13.8% in the first...
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April 12,2022The services sector employed 51.9% of the Iranian employed population (12.03 million) in the fourth quarter of last Iranian year (Dec. 22, 2021-March 20), 1.5% higher than in the corresponding...
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January 13,2022The Statistical Center of Iran put labor force participation rate — the proportion of the population of ages 15 and above that is economically active either employed or looking for a job — at 40.9...
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July 31,2021The Statistical Center of Iran has put the Q1 (March 21-June 21) labor force participation rate — the proportion of the population of ages 15 and above that is economically active either employed...
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April 17,2021Twenty-five percent of youth householders (those between 15 and 25 years) fell into the first income decile (those with the lowest income) in the year ending March 2020, Welfare Department of the...
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March 05,2021The services sector’s share of the Iranian employed population reached 49% with 11.48 million in the third quarter of the current fiscal year (Sept. 22-Dec. 20, 2020), 1% less than the...
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February 12,2021The number of people who worked two jobs at the same time rose from 726,000 in the year ending March 2018 to 834,000 in the year ending March 2020, latest data released by the Statistical Center of...
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June 27,2020Sixty percent of jobs in Iran lack health and retirement benefits, which are also not entitled to government support offered to businesses during the coronavirus crisis. According to a report by...
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May 10,2020Labor force participation rate—the proportion of the population of ages 15 and above that is economically active either employed or looking for a job—stood at 44.1% in the last Iranian year (March...
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April 22,2020The employment rate stood at 37.8% (23.43 million) in the fourth quarter of the current Iranian year (Dec. 22, 2019-March 19), down 0.4% compared with the same quarter of the last Iranian year,...
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April 15,2020The Statistical Center of Iran has put labor force participation rate—the proportion of the population of ages 15 and above that is economically active either employed or looking for job—in the...
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April 06,2020The government will allocate 50,000 billion rials ($305 million) to Unemployment Insurance Fund to support those who have lost their jobs amid the outbreak of coronavirus, an official with the...
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February 18,2020The Statistical Center of Iran has put labor force participation rate in the third quarter of the current Iranian year (Sept. 23-Dec. 21, 2019) at 44.3% or 27.33 million people, registering a 0.2%...
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January 06,2020The services sector employed 50% of the Iranian employed population (12.22 million) in the third quarter of the current Iranian year (Sept. 23-Dec. 21, 2019), 0.1% more than the corresponding...
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December 13,2019One of the main objectives of the government in the next Iranian year (starting March 20, 2020) is to boost domestic production and employment. As one of the appendixes to the newly unveiled...
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September 28,2019The overall unemployment rate in Iran, the proportion of total jobless population of ages 10 years and above, stood at 10.8% in the first quarter of the current Iranian year (March 21-June 21),...
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August 13,2019Of the 23.8 million people employed in Iran in the last fiscal year (ended March 20, 2019), 12.9 million or 54.2% stayed for fewer than 10 years in their main jobs. Job duration for around six...
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August 04,2019The Ministry of Cooperatives, Labor and Social Welfare surveyed 1.9 million unemployed, from the nearly 3.3 million unemployed in the last fiscal year (2018-19), who held a job for 10 years and...
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July 20,2019The Iranian economy generated 321,000 jobs in the first quarter of the current Iranian year (March 21-June 21), indicating a 0.1% growth compared with the same period of last year, the Statistical...
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July 12,2019Iran’s Information and Communications Ministry unveiled its long-awaited Startup Action Plan late Wednesday, which aims to create 68,000 jobs and give a boost to local tech firms. During an event...
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July 06,2019Fewer than 4% of workers in Iran enjoy job security, the employees’ representative in Supreme Labor Council said. “Lack of job security, livelihood security that is defined as adequate and...
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May 22,2019Rural communities accounted for 25% of all new jobs created in Iran in the last fiscal year (March 2018-19). According to Deputy Minister of Cooperatives, Labor and Social Welfare Isa Mansouri,...
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September 17,2018An environmental working group is considering proposals to allow flexible working hours for white-collar employees and two weeks of winter holiday for students, as part of a bid to cut air...
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